Away Quote by Joseph Altuzarra

I have a profound interest in embroidery, as I have female ancestors on both sides who embroidered their way through great trials.

— Emil Ferris

“Embroidery is an improbable hobby for someone as disordered as me, but it's the very precision of it that attracts me, the illusion of…

— Jane Johnson

So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?

— Ted Nelson

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's…

— Ayelet Waldman

Craft can get you through ninety percent of a piece, but it's art that carries you at the end.

— Stephen Graham Jones

The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is…

— Ted Nelson

Cutting is like painting a picture, to show sadness in bright red paint. The art work is so meaningful that it should be done…

— Music_love

I think it's important to make art that is not that easily absorbable, that is a challenge to the authorities.

— Lisa Yuskavage

But as an artiste, I want to challenge myself because that is what art is all about.

— Amit Sadh

I could fill an entire second life with working on my prints.

— M. C. Escher

You can't help putting a lot of yourself into the image and when it's printed the reader can spend hours getting it out.

— Francoise Mouly

I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.

— Joanna Lumley